Perceived Local Population Dynamics and Immigration Policy Views

Chan, Stephanie; Raychaudhuri, Tanika; Valenzuela, Ali A.

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“…Future research could explore the relative effect strength of various treatment variations and possible subgroup effects in larger representative samples in the United States or other countries. There is suggestive evidence that informational treatments may have differing effects among conservatives, and other demographic subgroups [34]. There is also evidence that, depending on the policy environment itself, voters in some countries and contexts can be systematically more knowledgeable about immigration and its benefits than others [35,36].…”

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Immigration is Difficult?! Informing Voters About Immigration Policy Fosters Pro-immigration Views

Kustov,

Landgrave

2023

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The US public significantly lacks knowledge about immigration. While various attempts to correct misperceptions have generally failed to change people's minds about the issue, it is possible that this failure has been the result of not providing relevant information. We argue that informing the public about the difficulty of the legal immigration admission process could be an effective, perspective-changing way to raise support for more open immigration policies. We test and confirm this hypothesis using a national US survey experiment that informs respondents about US immigration's administrative burdens and restrictions through short verifiable narratives. We also provide the first evidence of the widespread ignorance about the immigration process across diverse political and demographic groups. Our results suggest that providing new factual information on the immigration process's difficulty has more promise to change policy preferences than challenging skeptics' existing beliefs about immigration's effects or numbers.

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Immigration is Difficult?! Informing Voters About Immigration Policy Fosters Pro-immigration Views

Kustov,

Landgrave

2023

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Hierarchy in the Politics of Migration: Revisiting Race, Ethnicity, and Power in the Migration State

Bautista-Chavez,

Castañeda-Pérez,

Chan

et al. 2024

International Migration Review

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Migrants and refugees face hostile publics and organized political interests, and contend with new and evolving forms of surveillance, deportability, and political violence. Researchers show that these political dynamics are fundamentally shaped by the politics of race and ethnicity. Yet, even as this work is increasingly abundant, it has not always been taken up by mainstream accounts of migration. In this article, we revisit scholarship on the politics of international migration, bringing together a collection of — sometimes disparate — research to explore how scholars can forge new lines of inquiry regarding the relationship between migration, race, ethnicity, and power. To do so, we evaluate three types of relationships at the core of migration politics: the relationship between migration and the state, the migration-related demands of domestic publics on the state, and how migrants interact and contend with the state. Across these relationships, we examine how ethnoracial hierarchies draw on, legitimize, and reinforce uneven distributions of political power, disparate deployments of state action and violence, and projects of nation- and state-building. Combining the intellectual prowess of distinct fields and approaches, we draw on productive convergences and tensions between existing and emerging frameworks and analytic starting points across disciplines to map future research trajectories in the multidisciplinary study of immigration, citizenship, asylum, and racial and ethnic politics. We conclude with a note on the politics of knowledge production–whereby some accounts of migration have been privileged over others–and point to important epistemological and methodological interventions for advancing research on the politics of migration.

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Perceived Local Population Dynamics and Immigration Policy Views

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Immigration is Difficult?! Informing Voters About Immigration Policy Fosters Pro-immigration Views

Immigration is Difficult?! Informing Voters About Immigration Policy Fosters Pro-immigration Views

Hierarchy in the Politics of Migration: Revisiting Race, Ethnicity, and Power in the Migration State

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